Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”

• Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a thread where someone claimed that you don’t own the games on Steam but you do on GOG, this is the comment the person was replying to:

  In case of Steam.

  With GOG I get an actual license key & terms that state my ownership.

  So yes, that’s exactly what the person is saying. So the fact that GOG can’t remotely wipe your drive is a strawman fallacy, because neither can Steam, and the differences between GOG and Steam is what’s being discussed, so anything that is the same has no bearing on the discussion.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    GOG is the only big option if you want to own the games you purchase.

    I think it’s pretty clear from context that they mean they have the ability to perpetually play the games because of the lack of DRM, not the right.

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Again, the same is true for Steam, so that’s a moot point when comparing GOG to Steam which is what this thread is about.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No it’s not. If Steam goes down you cannot keep playing your games without using a crack to get around the DRM.

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